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.Dd October 27, 2014
.Dt BRANDELF 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm brandelf
.Nd mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl V | Fl -version
.Op Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
.Op Fl h | Fl -help
.Op Fl l
.Op Fl t Ar brand
.Op Fl v
.Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number.
Incompatible with the
.Fl t
option.
These values are assigned by SCO/USL.
.It Fl h | Fl -help
Print a usage message and exit.
.It Fl l
Writes the list of all known ELF types to standard output.
.It Fl t Ar brand
Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the ABI specified by argument
.Ar brand .
Supported ABIs include
.Dq Li 86Open ,
.Dq Li AIX ,
.Dq Li ARM ,
.Dq Li AROS ,
.Dq Li FreeBSD ,
.Dq Li GNU ,
.Dq Li HP/UX ,
.Dq Li Hurd ,
.Dq Li IRIX ,
.Dq Li Linux
(an alias for
.Dq Li GNU ) ,
.Dq Li Modesto ,
.Dq Li NSK ,
.Dq Li NetBSD ,
.Dq Li None ,
.Dq Li OpenBSD ,
.Dq Li OpenVMS ,
.Dq Li Standalone ,
.Dq Li SVR4
(an alias for
.Dq Li None ) ,
.Dq Li Solaris
and
.Dq Li Tru64 .
.It Fl v
This option is accepted for compatibility with other versions of
.Nm ,
but is otherwise ignored.
.It Fl V | Fl -version
Print a version identifier and exit.
.El
.Pp
If the options
.Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
or
.Fl t Ar brand
were specified,
.Nm
will brand the files named by command-line arguments
.Ar
to be of type
.Ar ELF_ABI_number
or
.Ar brand
respectively.
.Pp
If neither of the
.Fl f
or
.Fl t
options were specified,
.Nm
will display the current branding for the files named by the arguments
.Ar .
.Sh EXIT STATUS
Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly,
or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the
.Fl f
option is not set.
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following is an example of a typical usage
of the
.Nm
command:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
brandelf file
brandelf -t GNU file
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Rs
.%A The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
.%T System V Application Binary Interface
.%D April 29, 1998 (DRAFT)
.%O http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
manual page first appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .
.Sh AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
.An John-Mark Gurney Aq Mt jmg@FreeBSD.org .
